Love, Simon is a tone mastream movie as foregrounds a gay character, but might have been outpaced by real life.
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- LOVE, SIMON IS A GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOVIE. BUT DO TODAY'S TEENS ACTUALLY NEED IT?
- SIMON COWELL IS GAY, ACRDG TO UNRVER FOOTAGE SHOWN AT TULISA TRIAL
- 'LOVE, SIMON' IS A GOTDAMN LIGHTFUL ROM, AND 'S GAY AS HELL
LOVE, SIMON IS A GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOVIE. BUT DO TODAY'S TEENS ACTUALLY NEED IT?
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There’s a precent for stori about gay teens g to themselv.
SIMON COWELL IS GAY, ACRDG TO UNRVER FOOTAGE SHOWN AT TULISA TRIAL
The new movie Love, Simon reprents somethg new: a look at what ’s like to be a gay teen that’s as slick and mastream as n be, like any other YA romantic edy. As his profile at school evolv, he’s mocked for beg gay by the jocks, but elsewhere his search for a boyiend is met wh a zealo enuragement that saps the movie’s tensn. Plenty of gay kids are supported by those around them, but how many are appld and rooted on by the school en masse, as Simon is, as they seek love?
A tone that feels overdue–the first mastream teen edy foregroundg a gay character–may have been outpaced by real life.
'LOVE, SIMON' IS A GOTDAMN LIGHTFUL ROM, AND 'S GAY AS HELL
Can a love story centered around a gay teen who is very refully built to seem as straight as possible appeal to a generatn that’s boldly reventg genr and sexualy on s own terms?